I made a bug report (enhancement) :) https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39056 On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 00:57 -0300, HugLeo wrote: > > I'm have a remote printer installed in the cups. I shared the printer > > and > > it prints OK using the wine notepad. > > But I have a old application that prints only if have direct access > > to a > > lpt1 named port. > > We can test executing the program wine start.exe and run the command: > > echo 'test' > lpt1 that returns: > > File not found > > I tried to create the rule > > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Printing\Spooler] > > "LPT1:"="|lpr" > > But echo 'test' > lpt1 still returns File not found > > I'm wondering if it's possible to create a LPT1: port and echoing to > > lpr > > Does anyone know if it is possible? > > > > No guarantees but you *might* be able to print directly if your PC has > a parallel port and the printer is connected to it. Then, at a minimum, > you'd need to to alias the printer (probably its /dev/lp0) as LPT1: by > adding a symlink ("ln -s /dev/lp0 LPT1:") and change its access > permissions so the user that is running Wine has read and write > permissions for the device file (/dev/lp0 or whatever your PC calls > it.). > > IOW that program is expecting to use its own printer driver (or one in > a Windows library) to talk directly to a parallel interface chip that > Windows addresses as LPT1. I've done this successfully for serial ports > but haven't tried it for a printer. > > > Martin > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20150807/6e369c7b/attachment.html>
